A delightful Coens romp through Greek mythology, the Depression-era South and the human psyche.

Viewed 20 years later, The Big Lebowski’s wry satirization of capitalism becomes more pronounced.

[xrr rating=3.0/5]Local celebrity reporter Richard Shellburn (Richard Jenkins) provides the opening voiceover in God’s Pocket, narrating the lives of people he only thinks he understands. He’s droll and pompous and so commercial you expect him to declare of this working-class neighborhood, “With a name like God’s Pocket, it has to be good.” He’s a wannabe James Agee without the talent, …

[xrr rating=2.0/5]Fading Gigolo is notable for placing Woody Allen in an acting role for the first time outside one of his own films (and discounting appearances as himself), since 2000’s Picking Up the Pieces. Yet just as Allen’s character, Murray, dictates much of the path of the protagonist Fioravante (John Turturro), so too does Allen the filmmaker hang at the …